I got a virus problem, please help!

Ok, i have a desktop, kind of old, 2-3 years old, and i think i got a virus. I was going to a site to watch movies and then it said i needed to download some thing to watch it. So i downloaded it and guess what. The browser closed and when i opened IE again, there is a browser saying, Critical malware found, you have to download anti-malware software, i click OK
and then it leads me to a site where you buy the thing for like 50 bucks. I close it, next time i open same thing happens. And now on my taskbar on the right, it has icons flickering and telling me to click and update my computer with malware killing programs.

I really dont noe what to do.... is there really a big virus in my pc or is it a virus it self?


Thx for reading it and hope you can give me some advice,
Milfire

 

you got XP or vista? just use system restore and go back to the last restore point or a few days ago or something and see if it helps

 

Is it doing on all websites or just this one???

BTW - recommended moving this, you may get more responses in software.

 

Reformat your PC if you have the OS disk.

Also, you might get more help in the software forum.

 

Thread moved.

 

hopefully you learned your lesson

 

Before reformatting and reinstalling Windows, I'd attempt to uninstall the program causing the popups, either using Control Panel or by running a manual scan. If that doesn't work, run AV and anti-spyware programs. If you don't have any, there are free ones available:

AV - AVG, Avast
AS - Spybot, Adaware, AVG AS

There are also online scanners you can use: Trend Micro is one; I think Kaspersky has one, too.

Another possible fix is running CCleaner.

Try Download.com or Snapfiles.com to download freebies. There are other sites as well. If somebody else has other preferences, you'll see them posted.

 

You don't just click something and download these days, you know. Or at least get an anti-virus software before clicking and clicking.

Get AVG [your PC's 2-3 years old, so it'd probably handle AVG better than Avast].

Try using another browser [Firefox] and download real anti-spyware, like Ad-Aware. The "virus" probably causes IE to act that way.

Hope this helps.

 

Download AntiVir. It's a free AntiVirus and its better than AVG or Avast. Also, AntiVir doesnt hog system resources, so if your PC is oldish, AntiVir should be perfect.

Download AntiVir here: www.free-av.com

As for spyware, i would use Spybot as it is free. It can be found here.

 

i use spyware Docter to detect that kinda of stuff (like trojans, bugs, even cookies )

and yeah, use some antivirus scan.

 

Just a wild hunch . . . open WINNT/system32/drivers/etc/hosts in notepad. Mine only has the following in it:

If you have more uncommented lines (like 127.0.0.1 localhost) then you have redirects written here.

 

Hey that is adware.spysheriff spyware. You have to scan with norton or kaspersky antivirus to remove it. Windows defender will tell that spyware found and removed but won't remove it fully.

Norton antivirus 2008 90 day trial
http://www.symantecstore.com/dr/v2/...ndexPage&client=Symantec&sid=37771&cid=273172

Kaspersky antivirus 30 day trial
http://usa.kaspersky.com/trials/home-users/anti-virus-7/

I got this spyware once, used nav and got rid of that completely.

 

I had one of those and they're a pain to delete. My antivirus program can't even delete it (Avast). Windows Defender can't rid of it either. I also went to the Add/Remove to delete recently added programs, did Registry cleaning(CCleaner) and also did System Restore and it stayed on. Even MSConfig'd start up programs doesn't prevent it from popping up. Had no choice but to reformat my HD.. I have Windows XP Media Edition.

The thing that got me was that Avast didn't detect it being a rogue program. And Windows Firewall didn't help either. Hopefully they updated their list. These sites and programmers should get fined for doing this.

 

Or you could be careful with what you download.

Only things you will ever need for watcing movies are CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack), divx web player, flash player, java plugin, and shockwave player.

That should allow you to watch any online video.

Might I suggest Adaware, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Spyware Blaster. I use all three to keep my computer spyware, trojan, and malware free. I also use Avast AV.

 

I've been running my computer with out anti-virus for over a year now with no problems, I only occasionally run Spybot to get rid of the pesky tracking cookies which I blocked anyways in FireFox and rarely appear anymore.

FireFox + NoScript + AdBlockPlus + AdBlock Filter G Set is one the most secure browser configurations around.

 

Spybot S&D has that spysheriff in it's database, so scan with that for sure.

 

I suggest you scan your computer for viruses maybe your software will detect the virus and if you had McAfee it would have listed the download as yellow or red before the download

 

My suggestion would be using a scan online engine.
I use bit defender online scanning and it works well
www.bitdefender.com